Matcha au Lait - Strawberry

I finally figured out my best approach to Lupicia’s Matcha au Lait mix. First, I put a tablespoon’s worth of tea in my bowl. (I don’t have any teacups large enough yet shallow enough to whisk in, so I use one of those bowls Chinese restaurants serve rice in.) Then I fill the bowl about a third of the way with hot water, and whisk it until the tea’s blended in. At that point, it’s a very thick matcha. Then I fill the bowl the rest of the way with milk, and whisk again. Since the tea’s already dispersed in the hot water, this method avoids the clumpiness I had when I just used milk (even when I heated the milk first), plus adding the milk second helps cool the tea down so I can drink it immediately.

The strawberry flavor isn’t strong, but it’s definitely there. With the milk it’s very tasty.

When I was at Lupicia last week, all the matcha au laits were on sale. I wonder if this means it’s being discontinued already? Did anyone happen to notice if this was a limited edition for summer?

Home – 11:00 AM

Added this to my recent order, as it was the only flavor I hadn’t tried. I prepared it as a matcha milk, using the recommended 2 heaping teaspoons of powder for 8 ounces of soy milk.

Hmm… Well the base is pretty tasty, but I’m not really getting strawberry. The matcha is rich and creamy, with absolutely no bitterness. It has a smooth grassy flavor. The level of added sugar is okay for me, though really I would prefer it unsweetened so I could add agave to taste.

It’s good! But no strawberry for me…

There’s also not much in the packet if the servings are 2+ teaspoons each. So that also makes it a bit expensive.

Summer Vacation! It occured to me I still haven’t made any matcha during my “stop” in Japan, so I figured that a matcha latte was in order for my morning tea today. I picked up two flavored matcha latte mixes on the cheap from a past Lupicia mottainai sale, strawberry and caramel, so I decided to go with strawberry. Opening the bag and sniffing, it just smelled like matcha, that sweet grassy scent, perhaps a little sweeter than usual from the added sugar since it’s a latte mix, but I didn’t really notice the strawberry. Ah well. It was mottainai for being on the best buy date at the time, and that wasn’t going to stop me from free tea. I’ll still try it!

The directions just said to spoon whisk two teaspoons in one cup of milk and then microwave it, but I knew I could do better; I put the teaspoons and the cup of milk into my milk frother, pushed the “warm” button, and let it do it’s centrifugal thing. Bing! Matcha. So easy. My big mug holds two cups, so I let it have a second go, too. I use vanilla almond milk for my tea lattes (except for a few rare exceptions where I go with chocolate almond milk or coconut milk instead), and my finished drink now has a noticably sweet strawberry cream aroma.

Mmm. There is a fairly rich matcha flavor here, very grassy that lingers a bit on the back of the tongue. It still has a bit of a bite to it, despite the drink having some sweetener present, so it seems to be a fairly strong matcha. Despite not being able to smell the strawberry in the dry matcha, the flavor of it is very noticable, and pleasant, in the brewed drink. It’s sweet and reminds me less of rich berries and more of strawberry marshmellows or strawberry mochi; a sweet, fluffy-textured strawberry dessert. Pairing with vanilla milk may have something to do with that, giving it a really creamy sort of note. It’s an interesting juxtaposition with the sharper, slightly astringent grassy note of the matcha.

Too sweet. I feel like the ingredient listed should belisted in reverse order. Regardless you still get a nice bit of grassiness. The strawberry is more predominate then I thought it was going to be. Its good but a bit too sugary for my tastes.

Matcha/Green TTB #1

For some odd reason this powder made me think of strawberry matcha candy mixture. Not that I ever had or found such a thing, but the thought of strawberry matcha and the smell of this just conjured such a thought in my mind. I tried to whisk this tea, but it kind of just did its thing without help :/
This actually has a strawberry taste in it which is nice. A bit dry at times, but overall nice.

From the Matcha/Green TTB!

I kind of went by the packaging instructions, only I went for a cold version, rather than nuking the mix in some milk. This already has sugar in it, which happens to be the fist ingriedient. I like to mess around with the amount of sweetness in my own lattés, so I just shrugged that one off. There is also milk in this as well, which is off-putting, but I think it works. As if the carton of milk wasn’t milky enough? The strawberry is quite subdued. Like non-existent subdued. I think I smelled it before I took a sip? It wasn’t there in the ‘brew.’

Bummer. This could have been so much better.

This is my first review in months! I guess I just got really tired of spending hours a day on steepster and feeling like I was wasting my life (I know that’s dramatic, but I am not getting any younger).

I was so excited about this one. They were out when I first went to order it, but when I checked a few weeks later, it was back, yay!

So this is very good, reminds me of matcha ice cream. Definitely sweeter than the matchas from RLT, which I like. The only thing is that I am not getting any strawberry, like none. I ordered two other strawberry teas from them and the strawberry is VERY obvious, so I’m not sure if I got a bad batch or if this is what it is always like? This is really good, but it would be so much better with their strawberry flavour.

After the vegetal overload of the matcha au lait – caramel, I decided to cut the amount of “leaf” in half which meant I used 1 tsp (which is still double what I would have used without guidance from the company. Unfortunately this was still too grassy and the strawberry flavor too sweet (and artificial) for my tastes. This too will be passed along and I think I will stick to Lupicia teas and Red Leaf Tea’s matcha in the future. Nonetheless I am super appreciative of Dustin giving me the opportunity to try something new so thank you Dustin!!

My breakfast today is heavenly – I made a smoothie with this matcha, an entire 2 cups of strawberries, banana, chia seeds, soymilk, and some cashew “cream” I made last night.

Really yummy and delicious – tastes almost like a dessert. I am getting that Vitamin C in today! Lots of it!

Tried this for the first time this morning and I think it is going to take some tweaking to get it right. I followed the instructions, but I didn’t get any strawberry and my cup was bitter even after adding a bit of extra sugar. I used my usual powdered goat milk, which has a flavor of it’s own, but shouldn’t have been able to drown out the strawberry. The first ingredient is sugar which makes me feel like I might not be getting that much matcha for the price. I don’t know… I’m not excited about this purchase, but I’ll try it a few more times before I give up on it.